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Quotes About Enforcement

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.
~ John McGraw
A man is merely to implement the law. He is there not to decide what to implement as we already have the law. We don't have a legislative body.
~ Anjem Choudary
Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.
~ Felix Adler
The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!
~ Gene Mauch
A man with a club is a law-maker.
~ Jack London
Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.
~ David Bonderman
Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
~ Harri Holkeri
Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'
~ Mark Thomas
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
~ Gary Becker
Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.
~ Murray Rothbard
You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments." "Yeah," said Harry, "but you, unlike me, are a git.
~ J. K. Rowling
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren
~ Ayn Rand
Instead, anxious to maintain their revenues at a time of low production and high military expenditure, the Company, in one of the greatest failures of corporate responsibility in history, rigorously enforced tax collection and in some cases even increased revenue assessments by 10 per cent.
~ William Dalrymple
Just as with the Maghribis, the clan's ability to enforce contracts is a success on one level in making trade possible when no formal institutions are available. But on another level, the reliance on enforcement inside the clan retarded the development of formal laws and institutions that would have made available a much greater scope of trade—such as between clans.
~ William Easterly
The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?
~ William Golding
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
~ William Howard Taft
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
~ William Howard Taft
It's legitimate for the police to use violence because they are enforcing the law; the law is legitimate because it's rooted in the constitution; the constitution is legitimate because it comes from the people; the people created the constitution by acts of illegal violence. The obvious question, then: How does one tell the difference between "the people" and a mere rampaging mob?
~ David Graeber
So: Police are bureaucrats with weapons. If you think about it, this is a really ingenious trick. Because when most of think about police, we do not think of them as enforcing regulation. We think of them as fighting crime, and when we think of "crime," the kind of crime we have in our minds in violent crime. Even though, in fact, what police mostly do is exactly the opposite: they bring the threat of force to bear on situations that would otherwise have nothing to do with it.
~ David Graeber
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~ David Graeber
Police are bureaucrats with weapons.
~ David Graeber
Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.
~ David K. Shipler
Education is important, but we're to the point where almost everyone knows they shouldn't drink and drive. The people who are still doing it are choosing to do it. The most effective way to deal with them is to arrest them.
~ David Kelly